AN INTERESTING POINT
CHAEGE OF SUNDAY TRADING DISMISSED,
Reserved decision was given by Mr. E Page, S.M., a t the Magistrate's' Court to-day in the case in which Samuel Wyatt, proprietor of the Lambton Station bookstall, was charged with Sunday trading in regard t o the sale of cigarettes. "In the case under review " said the 'Magistrate, " there is nothing whatever to indicate from Lambton quay or Featherston street that a bookstall exists on the station, nor to indicate whether such a bookstall, if it is known to exist, is open for business. According to our law, it is not an offence to *™? or £' °i keep open a sh°p °n Sunday. The offence consists in the doing of any of these matters 'in or in view of any •public place,' and, therefore in my opinion, the present defendant has not been brought within the Statute " Ihe charge against the defendant, who was represented at the hearing of the case by Mr. A. W. Blair, was accord! mgly dismissed.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 106, 1 November 1923, Page 7
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168AN INTERESTING POINT Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 106, 1 November 1923, Page 7
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